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From Greg Smith
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In response to Re: MySQL versus Postgres  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
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Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> What's the problem with 18GB shared_buffers exactly

It's slower than smaller numbers, and if you actually dirty a
significant portion of it you can have a checkpoint that takes hours to
sync, completely trashing system responsiveness for a good portion of it.

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Greg Smith  2ndQuadrant US  Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg@2ndQuadrant.com   www.2ndQuadrant.us

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